We just lived through this 15 years ago, and that’s not what happened at the time in a situation where many, many more banks were exposed to significantly highe

We just lived through this 15 years ago, and that’s not what happened at the time in a situation where many, many more banks were exposed to significantly higher risk. SVB had a short-term liquidity crisis, followed by botching a funding round to solve the crisis (along with some internal issues). They were a relatively small bank whose assets likely would have been gifted to another bank in exchange for covering the liabilities.